Linux-Misc Digest #582, Volume #20 Thu, 10 Jun 99 23:13:07 EDT
Contents:
printtool crashes - problem with printerdb in RedHat 6.0 (Glenn)
Re: Commercially speaking....? (John Garrison)
Re: Editing a 4.7Mb file (VI limit 2Mb) ("Thomas T. Veldhouse")
rotate syslog ("Markus Renschler")
Re: I Still cant get the new kernel to install in SuSE1.6 (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: preventing floppy from mounting as MSDOS (instead of VFAT) (Scott Lanning)
Re: write Bat file (Gus Hartmann)
Automatically start a process in the context of a user when booting (Jeff Silverman)
/dev/ttyp# & /dev/pts permissions ("Dardo D. Kleiner")
Re: NT the best web platform? ("Chad Mulligan")
Re: Automatically start a process in the context of a user when booting ("Jürgen
Exner")
Re: passwd: Conversation error (Andrea Peterlongo)
Re: Samba and win95/nt ("David Means")
HP 697C. Need help configuring. (Denis)
Sound (Dennis Barbier)
Re: Linux: now or never (Mr S A Penny)
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From: Glenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: printtool crashes - problem with printerdb in RedHat 6.0
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 09:38:50 -0400
Hi,
I have RedHat 6.0, kernel 2.2.9, Ghost script 5.50 (via rpm), Epson
Stylus 600 and DEC Writer 95 (using Epson LQ2550 drivers) printers. I
can no longer run RedHat's printtool. Last night I tried adding a new
printer to pass through directly print jobs from WordPerfect and got
this error:
# printtool
Error in startup script: can't read "printerdb_descr(EpsonStylusColor)":
no such
element in array
while executing
"set printer $printerdb_descr([lindex $info 4])"
(procedure "FILTERED_summaryline" line 7)
invoked from within
"FILTERED_summaryline $i "local printer""
(procedure "LOCAL_summaryline" line 5)
invoked from within
"$printer_type($i)_summaryline $i"
(procedure "redisplay" line 6)
invoked from within
"redisplay"
(file "/usr/bin/printtool" line 3213)
The applicable section of printerdb is:
=====================================
=====snip
#
StartEntry: U_EpsonStylusColor
GSDriver: uniprint
Description: {Epson Stylus Color (UP)}
About: { \
Epson Stylus Color uniprint driver settings.\
}
Resolution: {NA} {NA} {}
BitsPerPixel: {stcany} {Stylus Color any type, 360x360DpI}
BitsPerPixel: {stc} {Stylus Color I / PRO Series, 360x360DpI,
Plain Paper}
BitsPerPixel: {stc_h} {Stylus Color I / PRO Series, 720x720DpI,
Special Paper}
BitsPerPixel: {stc_l} {Stylus Color I / PRO Series, 360x360DpI,
noWeave}
BitsPerPixel: {stc2} {Stylus Color II / IIs, 360x360DpI, Plain
Paper}
BitsPerPixel: {stc2_h} {Stylus Color II, 720x720DpI, Special Paper}
BitsPerPixel: {stc2s_h} {Stylus Color IIs, 720x720DpI, Special Paper}
BitsPerPixel: {stc500p} {Stylus Color 500, 360x360DpI, not Weaved,
Plain Paper}
BitsPerPixel: {stc500ph} {Stylus Color 500, 720x720DpI, not Weaved,
Plain Paper}
BitsPerPixel: {stc600ih} {Stylus Color 600, 1440x720DpI, Inkjet Paper}
BitsPerPixel: {stc600p} {Stylus Color 600, 720x720DpI, Plain Paper}
BitsPerPixel: {stc600pl} {Stylus Color 600, 360x360DpI, Plain Paper}
BitsPerPixel: {stc800ih} {Stylus Color 800, 1440x720DpI, Inkjet Paper}
BitsPerPixel: {stc800p} {Stylus Color 800, 720x720DpI, Plain Paper}
BitsPerPixel: {stc800pl} {Stylus Color 800, 360x360DpI, Plain Paper}
BitsPerPixel: {stc1520h} {Stylus Color 1520, 1440x720DpI, Inkjet
Paper}
EndEntry
#
Note that I am able to print fine with my previously created printers so
I'm not sure what the problem is with the db file. I also tried renaming
"StartEntry: U_EpsonStylusColor" to "StartEntry: EpsonStylusColor" and
also commented out all of the Stylus printers from my /etc/printcap
file, leaving only the dot matrix/LQ2550 printer in. These attempts also
had problems with the pinterdb file.
Has anyone else experienced this or suggestions on what to try?? Deja
News found no one.
Thanks,
Glenn
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From: John Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.msdos.misc,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Commercially speaking....?
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 01:43:02 GMT
Chad Mulligan wrote:
> John Garrison wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >Robert Zanatta wrote:
> >
> >> John Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >> > Chad Mulligan wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > John Garrison wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >> > > >Eugene O'Neil wrote:
> >> > > >
> <snipped>
> >>
> >> You know, it never ceases to amaze me that so many people, such as
> >> yourself, believe that companies such as Microsoft, who do have some
> degree
> >> of talent, would put in a lot of extra time and effort to screw you
> around.
> >> I think there's a psychological term for people who believe their being
> >> singled out, but I can't remember what it is...
> >
> >goto http://www.vcnet.com/bms/departments/dirtytricks.shtml and see how
> much
> >of it is in my head.
> >
> "Hush little baby, Don't say a word
> It's just the beast under your bed,
> in your closet, in your head"
>
Yo dig it, if its in my head it's in the DOJ's head too. In fact it's in a lot
of people's heads. Look's like you're the add man out bro.
>
> Metallica 1991
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From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux,linux.help
Subject: Re: Editing a 4.7Mb file (VI limit 2Mb)
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 08:51:32 -0500
Depends whether you have the tiny elvis or some other vi clone. I know that
BSD vi (FreeBSD) works well on any size file, although it can take a little
bit to open it if it is big.
Tom Veldhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Daniel W. Burke wrote in message ...
>On Wed, 9 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> How do you edit large files with Linux ? The file we want to edit is
>> 4.7Mb
>>
>
>Interesting.. I've editing 87meg files with vi, without any problems
(128megs
>of memory helps too, *grin*)
>
>Dan.
>
>
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From: "Markus Renschler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: rotate syslog
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 15:51:26 +0200
Hi,
I'm searching for the easiest way to rotate my syslog-files.
Are there any tools (beside logrotate) or is there a simple way (can I call
syslogd to create a new file)?
markus
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Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: I Still cant get the new kernel to install in SuSE1.6
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 12:05:12 GMT
[Note FollowUp-To: header, non-existant col.setup.misc group removed]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
> Been there, done that, doesnt work,
What doesn't work ? Doesn't boot ? Boots, but stops somewhere ?
Boots the old kernel image ?
> i'll be returning th software it wont work .
It would definitely be easier if you were telling us the details
(like, your /usr/src/linux/.config file) .
Michael
--
Michael Buchenrieder * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.muc.de/~mibu
Lumber Cartel Unit #456 (TINLC) & Official Netscum
Note: If you want me to send you email, don't munge your address.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Lanning)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux.setup,alt.linux,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: preventing floppy from mounting as MSDOS (instead of VFAT)
Date: 11 Jun 1999 01:47:14 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: How do I set things up that automounting floppies does not result in
: them being mounted as MSDOS (yuck!) but as normal MS-Windows format
: (VFAT) (or ext2, should I ever decide to use that for floppies)? I'm
Modify /etc/fstab
--
Scott Lanning: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://physics.bu.edu/~slanning
"It showed a lady, with a fur cap on and a fur stole, sitting upright
and holding out to the spectator a huge fur muff into which the whole
of her forearm had vanished!" --From Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis
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From: Gus Hartmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: write Bat file
Date: 11 Jun 1999 01:26:36 GMT
edward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just like window95 *.bat file. I want to write a BAT file in linux to
> common a series of command. What should i do? Can anyone teach me how
> to do it? Thanks!
The similar functionality under Unix is provided by shell
scripts. Here's a simple example:
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-<Cut Here>-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
#!/bin/sh
if some_command ; then
echo "It worked!"
else
echo "It failed!"
exit 1
fi
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-<Cut Here>-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
For more information on shell scripting, consult the man page
for sh(1), or any of the many fine publications regarding the Bourne
shell. If the desired functionality is simply to execute a series of
commands without regard for exit status, the commands can simply be
listed in order.
--
Gus
===========================================================================
http://www.upl.cs.wisc.edu/~hartmann/ | PGP Key ID: pub 1024/DCC499F5
___________________________________________________________________________
240 volts for 6 minutes.
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From: Jeff Silverman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Automatically start a process in the context of a user when booting
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 17:45:36 -0700
How do I start a process in the context of another user?
I have an httpd which runs in the context of the root account, and I
have another httpd which runs in the context of a user account. I would
like the user account httpd to start automatically on reboot. If I just
add the httpd command to rc.local, then it will start in the context of
root.
Since I typically have 60-90 days uptime between reboots, maybe this is
a non-issue. But I'd like to know....
Thank you
Jeff
--
Jeff Silverman, Software Engineer
Mathsoft, Data Analysis Products Division
1700 Westlake AVE N Suite 500, Seattle, WA, USA 98109
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From: "Dardo D. Kleiner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: /dev/ttyp# & /dev/pts permissions
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 10:01:09 -0400
Recently there was a post to the linux-security list indicating a problem
with permissions on the /dev/pts filesystem. It had something to do with
incorrect permissions on the /dev/pts directory, and the fact that the
entries were being created as "world-writeable", such that another logged in
user could potentially flood a tty with garbage (i.e. cat /dev/urandom >
/dev/pts/0). This was very intriguing, so I went and looked into what
permissions were being used on my box. First I discovered that I had not
correctly updated the dev RPM, do I didn't even have the /dev/pts
filesystem. My stuff still works because I use wterm-6.2.6, which
apparently doesn't support the new UNIX98 pty system. This leads to my
first question. Since wterm still uses the /dev/ttyp# devices, why are
_all_ 256 of my /dev/ttyp "world-writeable" AND "world-readable"? If I
change it (i.e.. chmod 600 /dev/ttyp0), the when I wterm as a normal user it
skips this tty and will use /dev/ttyp1 (ie. it uses the first available full
access (666) tty)...Thus, it would appear that my term is wide-open to
anyone else on my box (fortunately, I am the only one, but I want to know
what the heck is going on here). When I telnet to a FreeBSD box at work,
the /dev/ttyp# entries are correctly mode 600, so perhaps its a compile
option or configuration setting somewhere?
I have now updated my dev files, and I am trying to move towards using only
/dev/pts enabled servers, but wterm is such a cool term that I don't want to
get rid of it just yet. The latest rxvt release (www.rxvt.org) _does_
support the /dev/pts stuff, _and_ has transparency and next-scroll, but no
side menu or transparent scroll gutter (yeah, yeah, I'm a sucker for bells
and whistles). If anyone can point me in the direction of information about
tty's and permissions, I would be most appreciative, as I haven't been able
to find much of anything on this topic, and it seems to be a very important
issue to understand.
Thanks for reading all of this!!
- Dardo
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From: "Chad Mulligan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: NT the best web platform?
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 18:25:23 -0700
Chewbury Gubbins wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Anthony Ord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Thu, 3 Jun 1999 10:21:04 -0700, "Chad Mulligan"
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>>Okay, pay attention, The bug in Access has a fix. The bug in Disk Druid
>>>doesn't. The bug in Access might make your phone book inaccurate, the
bug
>>>in Disk Druid would destroy your system.
>
>> Ah! That's where I've been going wrong. I use partitioning
>> utilities *before* I have a system.
>
>Hang on - the topic here is best server platform. The only way disk druid
>could risk destroying data would be if existing partitions were being
>preserved (for dual boot purposes), no?
>
Yes. I always plan a back out process for any installation or upgrade (or in
this case downgrade).
>How many servers are required to dual boot?
Some in testing environments (low budget variety)
>
>CG
>
>--
>Sir Chewbury Gubbins, Knight of the Wholly Gnarly Widget
>MOC#7 BOG#1 etc etc
>http://www.nelefa.org
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From: "Jürgen Exner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Automatically start a process in the context of a user when booting
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 18:57:10 -0700
Reply-To: "Jürgen Exner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Jeff Silverman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> How do I start a process in the context of another user?
>
> I have an httpd which runs in the context of the root account, and I
> have another httpd which runs in the context of a user account. I would
> like the user account httpd to start automatically on reboot. If I just
> add the httpd command to rc.local, then it will start in the context of
> root.
Not sure what you mean with "context of another user" (another UID?, another
home dir?, another CWD?, the environment of another user?), but maybe you
are looking for "su".
jue
--
Jürgen Exner
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From: Andrea Peterlongo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: passwd: Conversation error
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 15:19:53 +0100
Thank you but, in effect, I have done an error writing the message and
in the script
I wrote the right command
passwd $USERNAME >/dev/null 2>&1 <<!.
and it doesn't work!
I have done an error writing my message but when I wrote the shell
script
Andreas Kyek wrote:
> Andrea Peterlongo wrote:
>
> > I am trying to change password using a shell script (RH 6.0).
> > I read it could be done by using this lines in the script:
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> > .....
> > USERNAME="foo"
> > PASSWORD="xyz"
> > passwd $USERNAME >/dev/null 2>&1 >>!
> > $PASSWORD
> > $PASSWORD
> > !
> >
> > Unfortunately when I run the script I obtain the following error:
> >
> > New UNIX password: Retype new UNIX password:
> > New UNIX password:
> > New UNIX password:
> > passwd: Conversation error
> >
> > Of course when I try to change the password from the command line
> > everything goes right.
> >
> > Is the somebody so kind to give me some help in this respect?
> >
> > Thank you in advance,
> >
> > Andrea Peterlongo
> >
> > --
> > dr. Andrea Peterlongo
> > U.O. Informatica e Statistica Applicate
> > Istituto Agrario S.Michele all'Adige
> > Via E.Mach, 1 - 38010 S.Michele all'Adige (TN) Italy
> > URL. http://www.ismaa.it
> > Tel. Work (+39)0461 615230 Fax. (+39)0461 650872
> > Home (+39)0461 990930
>
> Hey Andrea,
>
> a little change:
> passwd $USERNAME >/dev/null 2>&1 <<!
>
> should help
>
> Andreas
--
dr. Andrea Peterlongo
U.O. Informatica e Statistica Applicate
Istituto Agrario S.Michele all'Adige
Via E.Mach, 1 - 38010 S.Michele all'Adige (TN) Italy
URL. http://www.ismaa.it
Tel. Work (+39)0461 615230 Fax. (+39)0461 650872
Home (+39)0461 990930
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From: "David Means" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Samba and win95/nt
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 19:05:58 -0700
This sounds like there aren't any "shares" defined. The Windoze code
seems
to want to collect a password whether it will be useful or not, so it
cheerfully
misleads you into thinking that *some* password will do.
A second guess is that there is some inconsistency in whether passwords
are encrypted. But if you get past the first screen and can see the Linux
public
directory, this is probably not the trouble.
The file that defines all this is /etc/smb.conf.
Matthew D. Melbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:01beb376$0063b5c0$e701010a@ultra-001...
>
> After trying to get Samba set up in COL2.2 I finally was able to see the
> Icon in the win95 Network Neighborhood. So I thought I was home
> free...right?? WRONG..anyway, I can see the computer in the Network
> Neighborhood (win95 of course) and log into it. From there it gives me a
> "Public" directory and a directory with my username. When I try to open
> any of those directories I need to enter another password. Here is where
I
> run into a problem. I get a "The Password is incorrect. Please try
again"
> message. I try and enter every password that I know of under the sun..and
> nothing works. Is there a "*.conf" that I need to modify on the Linux
> machine for passwords?? I have no idea what is going wrong. Please help
> me with any ideas.
>
>
> Matthew D. Melbert
>
> ************************************
> Intern
> System Developement Group
> ***********************************
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From: Denis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP 697C. Need help configuring.
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 10:23:17 -0400
Can anybody who configured HP 697C (or another HP DeskJet) for RH5.1
point me to the (preferably step by step) configuration procodure for
such a printer?
Thank you.
Denis
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From: Dennis Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 22:06:47 -0400
Hi.
Was wondering if anyone could point me in the proper direction. I just
installed RH6.0 and am looking to ditch Windows completely.
I need sound support. I've got onboard sound on this computer
I cant really give you details on the hardware. Win95 Device manager
lists my sound chipset as a Crystal Audio PNP.
Its on a NEC Powermate 8100. Could anyone point me in the direction of a
driver and perhaps a HOWTO?
Any help *greatly* appreciated.
Please reply via email.
Thanks!@!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mr S A Penny)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux: now or never
Date: 10 Jun 1999 17:42:15 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>Gilles Pelletier wrote:
>>
SNIIIP!!
>>
>You Suck. :)
you forgot:
</aol>
;)
HTH
SammyTheSingle
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